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...Laughs.] That's like asking a mother who her favorite kid is. She knows, but she ain't telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 19, 2007 | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...life had a bitter beginning--most likely, her mother was killed by hunters in West Africa, who then sold the orphaned chimp to a dealer. She was taken to the U.S. by the Air Force and used in space research. But when Washoe began living with a human family, her tremendous potential began to show. By age 5, the chimpanzee was famous as the first animal ever to learn sign language; she eventually acquired a vocabulary of about 250 signs. Was she merely reacting to prompts, or was she really communicating? That question is still unresolved, even after she passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 19, 2007 | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

That's my mother's given name. Actually, it goes back to my ancestor Lord North, possibly the worst politician in the history of England. He's the one who blew the Colonies. I come by my interest in feckless politics honestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard North Patterson Eyes the White House | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

That's my mother's given name. Actually, it goes back to my ancestor Lord North, possibly the worst politician in the history of England. He's the one who blew the Colonies. I come by my interest in feckless politics honestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard North Patterson Eyes the White House | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

Middleton sexed language, and languaged sex, more comprehensively and creatively than any other writer in English. His sex is never just sex: it can be fun, funny, sad, repellent, lyrical, satirical; it entangles bodies in psychology, politics, ethics, religion. Middleton dramatized incest, an adult son obsessed with his mother's sexuality, a husband happily pimping his wife, a husband literally selling his wife, a husband brutally raping his wife. He wrote of transvestism, stalking, sexual blackmail, castration, impotence, masochism, necrophilia and an adulteress forced to eat her lover's corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bawdy Bard | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

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